[blml] re claim

[Ed Reppert]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:41 AM, gesta at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> The minutes are posted on the web and may be read.


The last minutes posted on the wbf site were from Monaco in 2003.  
Have there been no meetings of the committee since then?

> Failure to look at published information does not expunge its  
> existence and we do what we can
> to make the minutes available.

Pfui. One point on which I'm in agreement with Nigel Guthrie is that  
the WBF would do well to publish, on its website, an annotated  
version of the laws, with all relevant minutes included directly in  
the text. Actually, I would be happy with a link to the minute in the  
relevant law - that's why hyperlinks were invented, after all.

> David Stevenson has made a useful contribution to the exercise by  
> including mention of the more significant matters in the English  
> Bridge Union's 'White Book', also available (on the EBU's website).

Personally, I find David's guidance, and that of the White Book, very  
useful. But the fact remains that neither has any legal standing  
outside of England (and Wales, I suppose).